Keeley Hawes and Max Beesley 始める,決める to 星/主役にする in gripping new Sky 初めの sci-fi 演劇 The Midwich Cuckoos

Keeley Hawes and Max Beesley are 始める,決める to 星/主役にする in a new Sky 初めの?sci-fi 演劇 that 約束s to captivate テレビ視聴者s with eerie extraterrestrial activity.?

The Midwich Cuckoos is an eight-part adaptation of the 批判的に acclaimed John Wyndham novel that was published in 1957 under the same 肩書を与える.??

The writer behind The Night 経営者/支配人, David Farr, has penned the modern-day re-imagining, which follows the 居住(者)s of Midwich as women from the village mysteriously become 妊娠している with 外国人 children.?

Eerie: Keeley Hawes will star in sci-fi drama?The Midwich Cuckoos?which follows the residents of Midwich as women from the village mysteriously become pregnant with alien children

Eerie: Keeley Hawes will 星/主役にする in sci-fi 演劇?The Midwich Cuckoos?which follows the 居住(者)s of Midwich as women from the village mysteriously become 妊娠している with 外国人 children

Inhabitants of the sleepy?Midwich village are sent into panic when a flurry of 居住(者)s pass out with no explanation on a summer afternoon.? ?

When they 伸び(る) consciousness, every woman of child-耐えるing age inside the town's parameters is suddenly 妊娠している.? ??

BAFTA-指名するd Keeley, 45, will play psychotherapist Dr Susannah Zellaby who tries to help those who've been 影響d by the 外国人 侵略, 含むing her own daughter.?

Co-star:?The Outsider star Max Beesley, 50, will take on the role of police officer Paul Kirby, who must help the terrified town navigate the danger facing their normally quiet community

Co-星/主役にする:?The 部外者 星/主役にする Max Beesley, 50, will take on the 役割 of police officer Paul Kirby, who must help the terrified town navigate the danger 直面するing their 普通は 静かな community

一方/合間, The 部外者 星/主役にする Max, 50,?will take on the 役割 of police officer Paul Kirby, who must help the terrified town navigate the danger 直面するing their 普通は 静かな community.

Speaking about her 最新の 事業/計画(する) Keeley said: 'I’m 絶対 delighted to be working with Sky on The Midwich Cuckoos.?

'I’m very much looking 今後 to working with the hugely talented Max Beesley and the amazing cast and I can’t wait to enter the strange and unsettling world of Midwich.'?

One to watch:?Keeley revealed she's eager to get started on her latest project, which will start filming in London in May. She was last seen on screens in ITV's Finding Alice (pictured)

One to watch:?Keeley 明らかにする/漏らすd she's eager to get started on her 最新の 事業/計画(する), which will start filming in London in May. She was last seen on 審査するs in ITV's Finding Alice (pictured)?

Keeley and Max will also be joined by Last Night in Soho's Synn?ve Karlsen, Aisling Loftus from A 発見 of Witches, I May Destroy You's 吊りくさび Reeves, Ukweli Roach from Blindspot, and コマドリ Hood's Lara Rossi.??

Filming for the Sky 演劇 will begin in London in May with the series 推定する/予想するd to 攻撃する,衝突する small 審査するs in 2022.?

This?isn't the first time The Midwich Cuckoos has been the basis for an on-審査する adaptation.?

Directors Wolf Rilla and John Carpenter have both 以前 adapted the terrifying tale under the 代案/選択肢 肩書を与える Village of the Damned.

Speaking of his passion for the sci-fi novel, writer David Farr 明らかにする/漏らすd: '?I first read The Midwich Cuckoos when I was twelve. I was living in a small town in 1980s Britain.?

'Everything about the 調書をとる/予約する rang true to me and terrified me. An 侵略 of a small community by a 敵意を持った and ruthless 軍隊. 明らかに innocent children as a 軍隊 of 抱擁する malevolent 力/強力にする. It got under my 肌.

'As I've grown older, the story has never 中止するd to 発揮する a 支配する. The idea that we may birth our own 破壊 is so simple and 脅すing. That as a mother or a father, the 存在 we love most in the world may turn on us. It's the stuff of nightmares.'??

Rising stars: The pair will also be joined by?Last Night in Soho's Synn?ve Karlsen (pictured in 2019) as well as?Aisling Loftus, Lewis Reeves, Ukweli Roach an
d Lara Rossi

Rising 星/主役にするs: The pair will also be joined by?Last Night in Soho's Synn?ve Karlsen (pictured in 2019) 同様に as?Aisling Loftus, 吊りくさび Reeves, Ukweli Roach and Lara Rossi

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